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Digital Explosion for 30 points Answer: Moorse’s Law: The density of integrated circuits seems to double every couple of years. Leading to exponential growth of main memory sizes and processing power.

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Digital Explosion for 40 points Give an example of Koan 3: There Is Want in the Midst of Plenty

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Digital Explosion for 50 points Answer Koans: 1: It’s all just bits2: Perfection is Normal 3: There is want in the midst of plenty 4: Processing is power 5: More of the same can be a whole new thing 6: Nothing goes away 7: Bits move faster than thought

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Naked in the Sunlight for 10 points What’s the difference between a digital “footprint” and digital “fingerprint”?

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Naked in the Sunlight for 10 points Answer Footprints – we know we leave Fingerprints – we leave unintentionally

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Naked in the Sunlight for 20 points Give a usage of the Radio Frequency Identification Tag (RFID)?

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Naked in the Sunlight for 50 points What do the terms “Big Brother” and “Little Brother” refer to with respect to privacy?

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Naked in the Sunlight for 50 points Answer Big Brother is the government (“1984”) Little Brother is your neighbor or any individual using the Internet to check up on you.

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Ghosts in the Machine for 10 points What type of “metadata” is associated with a word processor document?

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Ghosts in the Machine for 20 points How are images stored on the computer?

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Ghosts in the Machine for 20 points Answer A sequence of pixels with each pixel consisting of a Red #, Green #, and Blue # (RGB value).

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Ghosts in the Machine for 30 points What is “steganography”?

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Ghosts in the Machine for 30 points Answer Steganography is the art of sending secret messages in imperceptible ways

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Ghosts in the Machine for 40 points If you delete a file and execute an “Empty Trash” command, why might the content’s of the file still be recovered?

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Ghosts in the Machine for 40 points Answer Blocks from a deleted file are removed from the Operating Systems file structure and put on the OS’s list of unused disk blocks. This blocks typically contain their “deleted” information until they are overwritten, so the file might be able to be covered.

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Ghosts in the Machine for 50 points Why did the Digital Domesday Book last only 15 years not 900 years like the paper version?

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Ghosts in the Machine for 50 points Answer The digital format of the specialized 12-inch disks were obsolete and forgotten so Digital Domesday Book could not be read. (eventually was reversed engineered)

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Needles in the Haystack for 10 points What make the early Internet more like a library?

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Needles in the Haystack for 10 points Answer Universities and Big Businesses mostly posted information which was organized by categories

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Needles in the Haystack for 20 points In the following search engine steps, where is the dividing line between the background vs. the foreground steps? 1. Gather information 2.Keep copies 3.Build an index 4.Understand the query 5.Determine the relevance of each possible result to the query 6.Determine the ranking of the relevant results 7.Present the results

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Needles in the Haystack for 20 points The dividing line between the background vs. the foreground steps: 1. Gather information 2.Keep copies 3.Build an index 4.Understand the query 5.Determine the relevance of each possible result to the query 6.Determine the ranking of the relevant results 7.Present the results

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Needles in the Haystack for 30 points What’s the difference between a sponsored and an “organic” search result?

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Needles in the Haystack for 30 points Answer A sponsored search result is pay-for- placement advertisement while an “organic” search result is one found through the search engines normal process